Vikram Tiwathia

Deputy Director General
COAI

This is India’s leading industry association for Telecom,Broadband, and Digital services. In his current assignment, he works extensively on telecom and broadband policy, and regulatory compliance aspects. He works closely with senior government officials and private sector executives to further augment mobile, broadband, and digital services business. He is a member of the Joint Working Group on Cyber Security chaired by the Deputy National Security Advisor. Is a frequent speaker at Cyber, and Telecom Network Security workshops /conferences. An active member of Telecom and Broadband Committees of national industry associations - CII,FICCI, Assocham, TSDSI Committees. He participates in many International Workshops/conferences conducted by ITU, APT, etc. He is a non-executive director of the Board of the Global Certification Forum. He was the Chief Regulatory Relations (CRO), with TATA Teleservices Limited from 2008-10. Earlier he was with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) as their Chief Information Officer (CIO) for three years (2005 -2008). Prior to that, he served in the communications arm (Signals) of the Indian Army (for a tenure of 24 years), from where he took voluntary retirement in 2005. He is an alumnus of the NDA, Kharakvasla. Vikram did his Masters's in Technology from the IIT Kharagpur in Electronics and Communication Engineering.